Climate Change and Frog Deaths

Biologists agree that amphibian populations are undergoing massive extinctions - they just can't agree on why.

Scientists became aware of extinctions in various frog species in the 1980s, when J. Alan Pounds and colleagues reported the disappearances of golden toads (Bufo periglenes) and harlequin frogs (Atelopus) in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve of Costa Rica.1 It wasn't until the late 1990s that researchers found a suspect for the mysterious case of global frog declines: an infectious disease, chytridiomycosis, caused by the chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.


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